Fishing in the sea.

"This place needs to build a city!"

Yang Feng looked at the grassland that was still covered in ice and snow.

Although it was almost February, it was still minus 20 degrees Celsius.

In the wasteland behind him, huge camel cities have been fenced, and within the defense line composed of Bactrian camels connected to each other, the Ming cavalry marching all the way from Kaiping to this place quickly set up tents, but there are not many bonfires......

"King, I can't find cow dung nearby, I'm afraid there has been no nomadic herding here for many years."

Zhang Fu walked over and said.

"I told you there was no one here."

Yang Feng said.

This area belongs to the Ming army every time they sweep will inevitably patronize, how can there be people, the most recent one is the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, that is, the year he first came, but before he came, the Ming army had just attacked the last Mongolian group led by Antanaha to try to return to the east. But the funny thing is that that time Zhu Yuanzhang was actually under the banner of rebelling against the Northern Yuan, because he also killed the Great Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Tugusi Timur, and then sent Antanaha to return to the east to gather those old Mongolian tribes who had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, so Zhu Yuanzhang ordered to kill the king to crusade.

The Ming Emperor fought for the Great Yuan Emperor against this monarch-killing traitor.

Of course, don't care what the reason, anyway, if you dare to come back, I will beat you.

So far, no one dares to come back.

"There are no people, how to repair the city, not to mention that the garrison is useless with less, and it is difficult to supply more, even if it is transported from Kaiping to the north, it will have to travel nearly two thousand miles. What's more, the winter here is so cold that you need to burn firewood for heating, and the only thing that can be burned on the grassland is cow dung, and there are no herdsmen here.

The cow dung didn't burn. ”

Zhu Di said.

"Why can't you go from Kaiping and Huining?"

Yang Feng said.

He then took out the artist's hand-drawn version of the satellite map.

He had been ready for a long time.

As long as Zhu Yuanzhang garrisons here, then he can guarantee all supplies, and he guarantees all the supplies here, which means that his sphere of influence has crossed the Great Xing'an Mountains, although reclamation is definitely not possible, but ......

Nothing but that.

In fact, he just wanted to garrison troops in such an iconic place as the grassland.

It's purely a personal hobby.

"From Huining to Xing'anwei by water transport along the Nenjiang River, and then by land camel team through the Great Xing'an Mountains, take the Taoer River, all the way to the upper reaches of the Halaha River, as for the firewood you mentioned, this is too easy, directly from the upstream to cut wood, and then along the Haraha River to release it, even those materials can be released, just the boat does not need to go back, and the materials are also sent firewood.

There is no need to garrison too much, one guard is enough.

Fishing in the sea one.

One in the mountains.

Send another one to Xing'anwei. ”

Yang Feng said.

Xing'anwei is Huining's subordinate guard.

Huining's guards have reached as far as Lingbei.

Anyway, it's the small tribes who come to contribute some local products and then take a title back.

As for the Nenjiang River water transport anywhere, in fact, Nenjiang County is casual, the inland river steamer to Da'an has a stable steamer flight during the Republic of China, so just find a wharf along the coast, in fact, you can also try to enter the Taoer River.

The big boat can't get in, and the small boat can't get in?

Then all that remains is to go to Arshan, in short, to find a shipping starting point in the upper reaches of the Haraha River.

All that's left is to drift all the way.

Zhu Di was a little moved.

He's good at this.

"My lord, do you know who the biggest border trouble in this area is in the future?

Russian.

Do you know how they expanded from nearly 20,000 miles away to this area by land?

It's by the river.

Their armed reclamation regiments, using water transport between the great rivers, first found a tributary upstream, and then drifted down the tributary, stopping to repair the castle when there was a suitable place along the way. And now the Mongols, whom we call Warat, will send troops to expel them, and if they can't hold on, they will retreat by water, and when the Mongols are nomadic to other places, they will come back to build castles again.

As long as they don't drive them away once.

And they took root.

Then they would use the castle as a base to keep coming in until they were ready, and then they would travel overland to find a tributary of the next water system, and then they would build a boat and drift away.

In this way, one water system after another crossed, slowly but steadily moving forward.

The last until the whale Triton.

We were all theirs at that time.

We have to learn.

Don't be afraid of difficulties, as long as you can actually control the land, what is the difficulty? ”

Yang Feng said.

"What is the use of us coming here in such a bitter cold place that cannot be cultivated?"

Tan Yuan said.

"Remember, there is not much land, no matter what kind of land, as long as there is a possibility of occupation, then it must be occupied, and not being able to cultivate does not mean that it is worthless, even if it is a desert, there are minerals underground. The more land we occupy, the more we leave our children and grandchildren with a legacy that they may find out about its value at some point. What's more, even if you can't cultivate here, you can graze, raise more cattle and sheep to sell, even if you raise cows to milk milk powder, if the road to Xing'an Mountains is opened, you can raise cattle here to sell to the Huining reclamation area.

There are so many pastures here that even a few million cattle are enough.

Millions of cattle.

There are really millions of cows, are you emperors happy? ”

Yang Feng said.

"Millions of cattle, how is that possible?"

Tan Yuan looked at the ice and snow in front of him in obvious disbelief.

"At that time, the area around Hulun Lake in the north was called Hulunbuir City, which was similar to a prefecture, with more than one million beef cattle and nearly one million dairy cows, adding up to more than two million heads, and more other livestock. This is the total number of cattle in the herd, that is, those that are still raised, and those that are slaughtered and sold are not counted.

Your poverty limits your imagination. ”

Yang Feng said.

Of course, there is no need to tell them about the difference between cattle and cattle breeds.

Ambassador Yang is not a lie.

Just be selective and tell them.

"Select a thousand cavalry, let them go upstream along the Haraha River, enter the mountains and wait for the spring to see if they can cut down and release the river, if they can release the water here, then leave the wood as evidence, and then go to Huining in the Xing'an Mountains, and return to Beiping from Huining, which is considered their meritorious service.

As for the others, rest here for ten days and then go to Horin. ”

Zhu Di said.

"Unload my big net, and I'll show you why this place is called the Fishing Sea."

Yang Feng shouted at the soldiers behind him.

The soldiers hurried to unload what he wanted from a camel.

Fishing in the sea......

That's what fishing.

This place is a popular place for winter fishing.

So the next day, an army of 30,000 was already ready to eat fish.

They rested in the fishing sea for ten days, Yang Feng took the fishing team to keep fishing, this season to clean up the internal organs, and then throw it aside is equivalent to directly frozen, when the army set off again, all the horses were hung with a dozen or even dozens of pounds of fish that were frozen into weapons. They continued along the Yuqu River or the Krulun River all the way west to Horin, but there were still no nomadic tribes along the way, and occasionally a few scattered herdsmen, who should have fled among the herdsmen.

The problem of run-aways in nomadic tribes is just as serious.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, outside the Great Wall of Jizhen, that is, in the Rehe Mountains, tens of thousands of herdsmen and fugitives from the interior wandered for a long time.

These saw the great army and immediately surrendered.

Through them, they can be sure that there are no major tribes in the entire lower reaches of the Xuqu River, including the lower reaches of the Xuqu River in the north.

But the Tula River has.

That is, the tribe that was originally also Sudieer.

They were originally nomadic in the Tula River, and Timur or Emperor Tianyuan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty was on the way to Helin, and was attacked and killed by him when he passed through his territory, and then he was also called Khan under the support of Warat and other departments, and moved west with the tribe, and after his death, his son Enke succeeded to the throne, Enke died in civil strife, and Kublai Khan's Erleboke succeeded to the throne.

This part of the tribe that had been in quick disel fled back to the Tula River.

They are also on their way to Horin.

That's it!

"Let's go, finally there's meat to eat!"

Yang Feng looked at the map and said.

The Tula River is the Tula River, which is south of Ulaanbaatar.

It is certain that their wintering ground is Ulaanbaatar.

Twenty-nine thousand cavalry began their assault along the Yuqu River.

Five days later.

Night, on the banks of the Tula River.

"Thirty miles ahead!"

In the snowstorm, a team of scouts returned, and the leading officer reported to Zhu Di.

"Launch the rocket!"

Zhu Di said.

An officer immediately took out a rocket and set it on the ground and lit the fuse, followed by a tail flamethrow, the rocket went straight into the sky, and soon two points in the left and right sky were equally fired, and then exploded in mid-air, which meant that the left and right flanks of the army received the order to attack.

Twenty-nine thousand troops, of course, could not be from one direction.

In fact, it is the middle of the attack.

The left and right flanks will be outflanked separately, and once the mid lane is raided, the enemy will definitely scatter and flee, and must be surrounded and annihilated.

"Let's go!"

Yang Feng shouted.

Then he urged the horses.

As a striker, Zhang Fu also picked up the spear.

They led a thousand cavalry in the front and moved forward along the Tula River, and Zhu Di's Chinese army in the back followed closely in the wind and snow like open eagle wings, only twenty miles, and half an hour later, a tent appeared in the wind and snow in front. They immediately began to charge at full speed, and the horse's hooves trampled on them, which immediately woke the sleeping tribe, and then some hurried out of the tents, and then roared in terror, and more and more people rushed out of the tents, and others hurriedly blew their horns.

But it didn't work.

The surging cavalry crashed into their camp in an instant.

The first wave did not use spears at all.

They just ran through the tents at full speed.

And then......

Throw grenades directly.

The enemy, who was already in disarray, had no intention of resisting at all in the constant sound of explosions, and ran desperately towards their horses regardless of their families.

But the sound of the explosion startled all the horses.

After all, this is Mobei.

None of these horses have necessarily heard the sound of a grenade exploding.

They even broke free from the ropes and fled, even ignoring their masters, and those who caught the horses were frightened and had to control them desperately.

But at this time, the second wave arrived.

The Ming cavalry on horseback swept through the entire camp with spears between them, and they would not be entangled either, they would be stabbed to death if they met the enemy, and they would not care about the side if they didn't meet them, just continue to run forward, anyway, there were tents everywhere in front. These large wintering camps are the gathering of the entire tribe, with tens of thousands of men, women and children crowded on the leeward side of the river, supported by autumn fodder. And the reason why this place is popular is because there is a mountain behind it, which means that there is firewood for heating in winter.

With water, firewood, and grass, this is the perfect wintering ground.

And then came the third wave.

All cavalry are the same, they will not get entangled with the enemy.

It is to rush, trample, wave after wave, so that the enemy can never gather, rush a camp and then rush the next, and behind the third wave, there is the main force that sweeps like a raging wave.

That's the devastating striking force.

"How come there are walls here?"

Zhang Fu, who was at the front, looked at a ruined city wall in front of him in amazement.

It is indeed a city wall.

It was only a circle of rammed earth that had been devastated by the years, and it was very small, estimated to be only two miles in circumference, but it still provided a barely defended defense, and at this time there were already awakened enemies who had climbed the city wall and raised their bows and arrows against them.

"What's so rare about this, there were a bunch of cities here when it was in the Liao Kingdom.

There are also a large number of Han Chinese! ”

Yang Feng said.

So it is not surprising that Han genes were later discovered.

Because Mongolia developed on the basis of the Liao Dynasty, Menggu and other tribes, the Liao State was the only one in the ancient dynasty except the Yuan Dynasty, which can be said to rule the grassland in the real sense. They had 30,000 garrisons in the grassland, not only several military states in the Ulaanbaatar area, but also a large number of Han craftsmen and Bohai people who moved to settle down and provide supporting facilities for the Khitan army stationed.

After the fall of the Liao State, Yelu Dashi tried to regather forces in Zhenzhou in this area to counterattack.

But in the end, no one supported it.

He had no choice but to go and create Western Liao.

He took a large number of elites with him, but there were still a large number of Khitan, Han, and Bohai people left, and these merged with the Menggu and other steppe tribes, and finally formed the Mongolia that swept across Europe and Asia.

Modern archaeology in this area has unearthed a bunch of ancient city ruins.

"Put!"

At this time, Zhang Fu had already let out a roar.

The cavalrymen, who were forced to surround the city, took out fire folds on their horses one by one, and then lit the fuse of the three-eyed gun in their hands, and while encircling the city, they spewed dense flames one after another against the enemy on the city wall. Although those enemies were indeed on the city walls, these walls had long since collapsed, and there was no protection such as a female wall at all, and the continuous shooting of the three-eyed guns made them fall screaming and falling. And the sudden blow of firearms made the rest all instinctively flee, and soon a defensive gap appeared on the city wall, and Zhang Fu, who arrived at the bottom of the city, stood up directly from the horse, and jumped onto a collapsed gap at the same time as the war horse stopped.

Several of the enemies inside swung their swords to meet them, and the twin maces in his hands smashed forward.

More cavalry jumped from horseback into the gap.

Ambassador Yang stood up very understandingly, and almost fell off his horse when he wanted to jump, but finally took out a grenade and threw it in.

Then continue to run along the root of the wall.

Throw grenades into it as you run.

And the camp that was previously disrupted by them has been flooded by Zhu Di's army.